By Celinda Emison in The Abilene Reporter-News
No one was injured in an early morning house fire that damaged a home in the 1000 block of South 10th Street. The alarm sounded just after 3 a.m. this morning, and fire fighters arrived to find heavy smoke and flames coming from the front of the house. Fire [...]
By Doug Myers in The Abilene Reporter-News
A cost-saving move requiring three days of furloughs for Abilene city employees won’t prove detrimental to police and firefighters’ abilities to serve Abilenians, Police Chief Stan Standridge and Fire Chief Ken Dozier said Monday.
Schedules have been arranged to be able to meet the needs of residents and also go [...]
From The Abilene Reporter-News
Significantly less than expected sales tax revenues has prompted the city Abilene to take drastic steps, including eliminating an upcoming employee pay raise and furloughing city workers for three days without pay.
Expected to save nearly $2.4 million, cutbacks to date have included:
3 days furlough for fire — $128,400
Consultant fees for Meet and [...]
By Celinda Emison in The Abilene Reporter-News
No one was injured in a house fire that was reported late Monday afternoon, officials from the Abilene Fire Department reported. Just after 5 p.m. Monday, firefighters responded to a call in the 2500 block of Glenwood Drive and discovered smoke and flames coming from the house. Firefighters said [...]
By Doug Myers in The Abilene Reporter-News
City Manager Larry Gilley said the city-planned cutbacks were decided after listening to employees who offered suggestions that included furloughs and the elimination of the scheduled 2 percent salary hike for employees. Some suggested eliminating programs, but Gilley said that would have resulted in layoffs because 75 percent of [...]
By Jaime Adame and Emily A. Peters in The Abilene Reporter-News
A truck driver escaped with non-life threatening injuries after the oil tanker he was driving rolled off the rain-soaked access road to Loop 322 near Abilene Regional airport about 9:35 a.m. The tanker’s top doors flew open and spilled up to 150 barrels of used [...]
By Jared Fields in The Abilene Reporter-News
A small fire caused damage to the kitchen and basement of a house and kept firefighters busy searching for remaining flames. Abilene firefighters responded at about 7:20 p.m. Wednesday evening to a house fire in the 2300 block of Hardy Street where heavy smoke was seen covering a multi-block [...]
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